A standard term contract for the supply of fuel bunkers to a vessel, which provided for payment within 60 days after delivery, that property would pass only when full payment had been made, and that the vessel owners had the right to use the bunkers to propel the vessel before payment, was not a contract for the sale of goods within section 2 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979.

The Supreme Court so held in dismissing the appeal of the claimants, PST Energy…

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